A Dual-band Broadband Conical Beam Antenna Based on TM01 and TM02 mode

A dual-band broadband conical beam antenna operating at Ku-/ Ka-band is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna adopts a novel across-layer folded structure which consists of two substrates. A circular patch with coupling slot is printed on the lower substrate as a monopole at Ku-band, and a circular patch and a loop patch are printed on the upper substrate to achieve operating at Ka-band. A wideband performance is obtained by introducing shorting vias to excite TM01 and TM02 mode in both bands. The simulation results show that the proposed antenna operates at 11.74 GHz-14.47 GHz in Ku-band and 32.20 GHz-35.63 GHz in Ka- band with -10 dB impedance bandwidth of 20.8% and 10.1%. And conical beam radiation patterns are achieved within the two bands, the peak gains in the lower and upper bands are 5.4 dBi and 9.9 dBi respectively.